- Types Of Speech
- You can use discerning as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Discerning
- A 3 syllables article and 10 letters with the letters c, d, e, g, i, n, r, and s, 7 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters er. Discerning starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, di, dis, disc, disce, and the ending characters are g, ng, ing, ning, rning, ..
- Definition
- Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
- School Grade
- Discerning is set as a sat word that starts with d, ends with g, 3 syllables, 3 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Discerning in Pig Latin is said as "iscerningday or iscerningdway".
- Unigram
- d | i | s | c | e | r | n | i | n | g
- Bigram
- di | is | sc | ce | er | rn | ni | in | ng
- Trigram
- dis | isc | sce | cer | ern | rni | nin | ing
- Quadrigram
- disc | isce | scer | cern | erni | rnin | ning
- Word Gram
- Article Examples
- having or revealing keen insight and good judgment;
"a discerning critic";
"a discerning reader"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- able to make or detect effects of great subtlety;
sensitive;
"discerning taste";
"a discerning eye for color" - quick to understand;
"a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne - unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic;
"a discerning editor";
"a discreet silence"
Synonym | Definition |
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Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
Acute Accent | |
Ague | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
Apperceptive | able to relate new percepts to past experience |
Appercipient | |
Argute | |
Astute | marked by practical hardheaded intelligence "a smart businessman" "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease" "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" |
Clear | a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water "finally broke out of the forest into the open" |
Clear Cut | |
Clear Eyed |
View all cognitive synonyms for Discerning
Antonym | Definition |
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Undiscerning | lacking discernment |
Anagram | Definition |
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Discerning | having or revealing keen insight and good judgment "a discerning critic" "a discerning reader" |
Rescinding |
View English words with the unique letters used in discerning. Words With The Letters Cdeginrs
Similar Word | Definition |
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Clear | a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the open" |
Clear Eyed | n/a |
Clear Sighted | n/a |
Percipient | characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; "clear mind"; "a percipient author" |
Prescient | perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere |
See Also | Definition |
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Critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude" |
Discriminating | marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people" |
Discerning Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With G
- Spelled With / Contains Letters